My commiserations Tudor, TV is always bad for the soul.
One of my proudest achievements was after being dragooned into a TV studio after a nasty crash (my employer was partly responsible for the type at the time, and hence so was I), interviewed mercilessly for 15 minutes by a disjointed voice whilst they shined a bright light in my eyes. The achievement was that I failed to say anything at-all juicy so they simply played 5 seconds in which I said "we have the lowest accident rate in the World".
Even worse was Scrapheap Challenge, but I've posted about that before and anyhow, Bill Brooks has proved so much better at it !
Hope you got paid for it, or at-least a decent free lunch.
G